Prp*idfnt Wilson, in a statement today to the nation, has In asked \ OU to cultivate a garden in order that the food prob- D ' Cm may be re,irvecl to extent. Will you do it? W % The Star will help you. It has asked Floyd Kader, King ?unty agriculturist, an expert in farming, to prepare a series of articles to tell you how to grow things. The first will appear in The Star Wednesday. Theip articles will save you time. trouble and expense. They will make that back lot of your* produce a consider- able portion of the vegetables you will need. They will be just what the Parent- Teachers association needs to stimulate garden growing among school children. Watch for The Star Wednesday and every day after that. In the meantime, get that lot to cultivate. If you haven't one of your own, call up James Callaghan, public welfare commissioner, at the courthouse, Main 9500. If you have a lot you will be unable to cultivate yourself, let some one else do it. The Seattle Stai THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO THE NEWS VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1917. ONE CENT.W^-'rT."' LAST EDITION Start that back yard garden this week. If you don't know how? watch for County Agriculturist Ra. der'a artlclea, in The Star. Weath. er Dopeiter Salisbury haa promised "lho*eri tonight and Tueaday." PORT PUNS TO SOL FOOD M M M M M M ______ ; HAY EMPTY HUGE STOREHOUSES TO CONSUMER Wuson to JbapeWar Course WASHINGTON. April IS.? Th# firat formal step In en* of tha most Important internation- al conference* of th# great war will bo taken Wednesday whan Proaident Wilton will receive Arthur J. Balfour, foraign mln- later of England, and member* af the French commiaalon now ?n route to thla country. Balfour and hla party, together with the French commUalon. in rinding former Premier Vlvianl and Oan. Joffre. nntll recently com- mander in-chief of the French ar- mies. will be tendered a reception at th* White Houm. To Shape Nation'a Doatlnlea Thl* formality dtiposed of. ques- tion* which may control the dee- tlalea of nations will be taken ui ta&^dlacoaaloft. part to the world war of democracy ajrainat autocracy will be definitely determined Not only the question of cooper aUon on the fighting field, but prob tem* of feeding and furnishing the European natlona with prorlslan* and money. FVieelgn Mlniater Balfonr will reach New York at S:3O p. m. He i« expected to contlnu* on to Wash- ington after a brief stay In New York. The exact time the French commissioner* are expected to ar- rive la not known, but it la expected they will t>e here Wednesday One of the first question* win he arrangement* to aubject Tlrltlsh resident* in the V. 8. to conscrip- tion In the American army or tha ! option of volunteering In the Brit- t*h army It became known today on unquestionable authority. Arrangements also will b« dla- russed whereby Great Britain mar be allowed to rernill British sub- jects In this country for her armies mm OF LENS BEING SEALED BY WM. PHILIPS 81 MVS from si»ff f*i»rr»«pon<l»»i» WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES AFIELD, April 1« ? British troops fought thsir way forward in the outskirts of St. Qusntln and Lens today. Just north of St. Qusntln thsy took tha village of Troisaauvagss. Around thrcs stdss of Lana ®»«y wars fiercely fighting ?gainst German defenders and alowly encircling tha coal city. Again early today the Germans fbrew two more strong attack* at British positions at Mounchy-l.e- Preu*. Both failed. The British artillery concentrat- ed artillery fire at the massed at tar lii "W» progressed to the north went at I>-ns," van the British corn (Continusd on paga 5) ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK HARD CASH You can save it?and Rood, substantial sums, too, by reading the ads daily in The Star. And the best part of It is that the bargain prices ire very often on necessi- ties?things you actually have to buy. Any day you don't read the ads you are overlooking good oppor- tunities. best offerings of Se- attle's best stores appear regularly in The Star. THE FASTEST OROWINO PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST Another "Scrap of Paper" PREACHER ADVISED I. W. W. TO HOLD EVERETT MEETIHG Rev. O H. McGill, method- -Ist, industrial evangelist, testi- fied Monday In the trial of Thomaa Tracy, I. W. W. charg- ed with shooting Deputy Sher- iff Jefferson Beard November 6. In the battle with deputies on the Everett city dock, thst he counssled Secretary Her- bert Mahler, of the Seattle lo- cal I. W. W , to hold a mass meeting at Evsrstt to tell cttl- aena "the truth of the Beverly park Incident." The minister's testimony came a* a surprise to the state. In cross examination, the slate strove to show thai while he might have 'been In favor of a meeting. MrGIII was not fully Informed of the Bev- erly park affair and that he knew nothing of the call which had been Issued by the I. W. W. to Its mem- i bers in the eastern part of the ' stste for a mass meeting, which | could make "the Everett mayor and chief of police shiver when they heard the word 'I W. W.'" Attorneys Bicker The examination of the Rev. Mr ; (fill and the Rev. Herbert Hint and Joseph P. Marlatt. of Everett, who ! prereded him on the witness stand, was conducted with much bicker- , Ing between the attorneys on both rl*|e* snd with frequent objections and exception" Attorney Vandcrviir. for the de- fense. Interposed a aerie* of objec- tions to the line of examination j lined by the state to ithow that Mahler had tricked and duped the minister. Tin objection* were j overruled. MAY SHACKLETON'S EPIC END LIKE THAT OF GREEK HERO, IS OUR WISH FOR HIM BY THE EDITOR Mint and Msrlatt testified that the In company with President K 1" Marsh, of the Stale Kedera- At home I have a book which. If I couldn't replace It. I would grieve to lose It la Homer'* Od.vs«ey, translat- ed not Into atllted Knsdlsh poetry, I.ut Into musical Anglo-Saxon proae. It tell* 111 language like thit of a raga the»tory the CJreek poet made Immortal. When I weary temporarily of the artificialities of this age of movies, newspapers, law courts and organ Uatlous, I Uko to so back Into th« The y Bond T Man's I Eyes | A novel of mys- tery concerning the strange powers of a sightless attorney to comprehend the sub- tie strategy of crimi- nals, begins in The Star today, page 4. golden day* when the world *?» young Dawn, the may fingered, uahera In that day A fresh wind sings over the wine dark Hen. Hwlft lila< k liliin cleave their wa>. accomplish- ing their pith. It I* a world of heroic men. ? ? ? Last night I had the fortune to be one of 4,000 Seattle peo- ple transported, thru an en- tirely different medium, Into thla *am« Wld of primitive tin it of I-abor, am! others, vis- lied Heverly park several da>s alter the alleged Ku'intlf running and later held h conference as to what should be done It «u dla- cus*ed at that time the advisability of permitting the I. \V W.'i to hold a mass nicotine In the tabernarle of Evangelists Hart and Mcllaan. who were holdlriK meetings In Ev- erett. No decision was made. hut It wan am a result of this confer- ence that MoOlil saya he advocat- ed a meeting In Everett November 6 to MahU-r. Navy Suspends All Wireless Licenses WASHINGTON, April 18.? In keeping with President Wil- son's recent proclamation, turn- ing wireless stations over to the navy, Secretary Daniels todsy announced all licensee for shore radio stations ars sus- pended during the wsr. BRAZILIAN LABOR WORKS FOR PEACE RIO I>E JANEIRO, April 1f,.- The ItrHZlllan Federation of l.abor met today and adopted resolutions urging peace. Do not fall to start reading "The Blind Man * Kyrm" today. times. We sat In the Arena, and a stocky man, "so ready at need, who wandered far and wide, and many the woes he suffered In his heart upon the deep, striving to win his own life and the return of his company," told us hit Odyssey. ? ? ? Drastic Course Proposed to Bring Down Prices; Dealers Blame Housewifely Hysteria for Unprecedented Buying. Who is responsible for potatoes? And for several other threatened food-price phenomena? You'll never guess?unless you start out, as The Star I has dune within ,the last two or three days, to trace the j guilty party to his lair. And then you'll find it hard to believe what you discover. Hecau.se, from all indications, the trail leads right around jin a circle to the people who are indignantly asking the question the housewives and the bill-payers. It's a pretty plain trail, right here in Seattle. It began 'with the complaint of retail grocers, a week or more ago, that itheit customers were suddenly buying their shelves bare. Housewives Buy by the Case Housewives who had always bought condensed milk by ! the can. w anted to buy »cveral cases. Potatoes, which, to- ward the end of the season, and only a month or so before new potatoes may be expected, are usually bought in small quantities, were demanded by the -ark or more. Sugar and flour were so |>opular that the astonished grocers were in danger of being bankrupted of these staple*. This sudden buying of f<*>d was and is, if it is still I continuing at the present high retail ptn.es. As soon as the situation became clear to the grocers, | they took measures to protect their stocks by refusing t«# se'l more than a certain amount to any j»erson, and, in the ca->r \u25a0if some who had been extending credit, hv demanding cash. Augustine * Krer's Klrst ave \u25a0tore, for Instance, fixed a maxi- mum of one wark of sugar to a per*on ? and at that they have been selling about 60 times a* much ! sugar a* uaual. according to II A Heppenstall, ? manager Meppen- *tall Instructed his clerk* to ex- plain to cuatomera that they do not know whether prices are going to go up or down, and to discxxir- ace reckless buying Kred Anderson. of the Royal Annex grocery. Eighth and line. »et a maximum of one cask of flour, one of eugar and one case of milk, to any one pe.rsoti Me also had a run on hla canned good* of all kinds Ho will »e|| for caah only. A Ixmg. who owns a chain of store* In the public market, turned down hundreds of would be buyer*, he aaya. because he felt that to aell In auch large quant I- tlea would demoralize the mar- ket. Moat of those who wanted to buy offered caah. Sales Show Record Increase Jamea O. l<oro. of 1620 Itoren ave.. aold 50 per cent more flour and sugar the early i«rt of last week than usual Many of hla credit cuatomera paid caah for the! aurplua over their usual pur- chases Mr* I). W. (>ioK. "00 70th W., refused to aell Isrge amounta ex cept for caah On last Monday j and Tuesday ahe aold 15 tltnea aa much sugar aa uaual A Pike Place market man haa a big sign out: "Not more, than three can* of milk to one person." "We have hard work to get It i from the wholesaler*." he explained. "Why are i>eople buying In auch large quantltleo now?" demanded another Saturday "This *prlng and summer will surety bring many things down In ?prlco- especially vegetable*. Moat hucksters were too husv fill- ing "war" order* to talk about them. The testimony of all retailer* wii to the effect that Beattle housewives have been apendlng their husband*' aalarle* and \u25a0training their credit to lay In a stock of food, at unprecedent- edly high price*, evidently be- lieving that It ll going to be scarcer and higher »oon. And on the other hand there Is just as much proof, and Just ns easily obtainable, that there is no j dang'T of h shortage; ANI> THAT. Willi.E THERE IS HANCiKIt OK llKillEft PRICES. IT IS THE HOUSEWIVES THEMSELVES, IK ANYIIODY, WHO WIU, CAUSE' in tiny boats on the Rtorm-tosHcd hack of the angry sea. duplicate Odyssey's years of adventure. The Mishaps that befell Ills he role hand are quite iih varied and marvelous n* the (Ireek warrior's encounters with the Cyclopes, the I/itus-Haters, the drones, the nymph Calypso and Aeolus. The onb difference was that nn unknown Aegean sea wan the back- ground for Homer's story, and un- known Antarctic, sess and conti- nent for Bbackleton's. Hlr Krnest Hhackleton's wander- ings. In strong wooden ship*, across untraoked mountain ranges. THEM Supply Is Plentiful "There I* no possibility of a time coming when we can't supply the grocer* with all their customers want." declared E Morganatem. secretary of Kchnabacher Hros., Wholesaler* "We haven't even felt any unusual demand from them yet. except some uctivlty In sugar and canned milk. It I* foolish of house, wlvea to buy recklessly, especially of perishables." The National Orocery Co also de- clared supplies to be ample. In the Bell at. warehouse of the l*irt commission, where commission men and some grower* keep their vegetable* In cold storage, the amount on hand I* normal for this time of year. Carrots and ruta- baga* are naturally almost gone, be- cause H will soon be time for new ones One great cold room which w ill hold fi.ooo sacks of potatoes has been about one-third emptied, and others have been drawn on In pro- portion. There Is more barreled fish In th« warehouse than usual at this season THRKK IS NO SHORTAGE OP KOOD AT PRESENT Paulhamus Explains Why, then, are people buying food so frantically? This Is what W. H. Paulhamus. president of the Puyailup anil Sum ner Kruit (.rowers' association, thinks about It. The association la composed of growers, who are themselves consumers. It puts up Its own products and sells them. It maintains a general store, at which Its members can buy sup- piles of every kind Consequently, he can view the subject from nearly all Its many sides. "I think." he says, "the trouble Is that housewives have got scared, thinking there Is to be a shortage, and lire causing the high prices and the shortage, If there U any. them- selves. Predicts Big Production "There certainly can be no seri- ous food shortage. The state of Washington, If planted intensively, could produoe 20 times what It can consume. In the volleys between Seattle and Tacotna. every avail- able acre Is being cultivated. There Is surely going to be such u produc- tion of staples this year ns will Keep prices down. "As to canned goods. I see no likelihood of a shortage. We are contracting for our cans now It Is true. It Is hard to get cans, because they are made of steel washed with (Continued on page 10) To eliminate the middleman's profits and to reduce to a minimum the possibility of food speculation, the port com- mission of Seattle will utilize its immense facilities in ware- houses and storage plants in a plan which will actually bring the producer and consumer together. l>etails of this j>owcrful campaign against food specula- tion have not yet been worked out, lmt in general, President Robert Bridges, of the port commission, has mapped out the following program: The port commision, thru the traffic department, to act in the unit manner as Western ave. commission housea to ' receive food products AND TO SELL THEM DIRECT TO GROCERS. BUTCHERS. FISH MARKETS. DEAL- ERS OF ALL KINDS. AND TO INDIVIDUALS. To place a tjme limit for holding any commodities in storage and compelling their sale after the expiration of such limit, thereby preventing the holding of food for spec- ulation prices. I hc>c arc the two main divisions of the port commission plan. Inasmuch as the publicly owned port plants have mo'j than one-third the total area of cold storage capacity »n tie. the port commission is in a po-itiun to make its war on spoliation absolutely effective. Because of the nominal storage rates made possible by the port, commission men have been buying up large quanti- ties oi food stuff and holding them for speculation, according to Bridge*. The new plan will absolutely prevent this. "It is quite as important." Bridges ?aid, "that there should be a proper distribution of food to the consumer ft reasonable prices as there should be a large food supply." \ WILSON ASKS NATION TO FEED ITSELF AND ALLIES IN WAR WASHINGTON. April 16 ? One of the mote eventful weeks In American history lay before the United States today. With President Wilson's appeal call- ing for the co-operation of every man and woman of the nation In waging a successful war, bringing the conflict homa to every farm, factory and house- hold, events of the next few days will move America rapidly forward to participation In tha struggle with Germany. The president's appeal to tha nation follows: My fellow countrymen: The entrance of our beloved country Into the grim and ter- rible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world, creates so many Says Dr. Matthews Advanced That $500 for Burns Sleuths Tell your amusement pur- veyor who says that no attrac- tion will please an American audience unlets the sex ele- ment predominates, about the Shackleton lecture Not a woman on the atage. Not a wom#n in any of the pictures. Not a woman men tloned In the story, or referred to in the most distant way. Just a recital, poetic In its sim- plicity and directness, of virile Prosecuting; Attorney bun- din and the county commission- ers still were in a deadlock Monday over the $500 bill which hundin has asked the commissioners to pay the Hurns detective agency, and which Commissioner 1/ou Smith refuses to approve unless It Is itemized. Smith declared Monday I.un- din had told him the money was needed to repay Dr. M. A. Matthews, who had advanced It to tha Burns operatives for exitenses during their work for the county. problems of national life and action which call for Immodlata consideration and settlement that I hope you will permit ma to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them. We ar» rapidly putting our navy upon an effective war footing and art about to cre- ate and equip a great army, but these are the simplest parte of the great task to which we have addressed our- selves. No Selfishness in Cause There is not a single selfish element, so far as I can sea, in the cause we are fighting for. We are fighting for what we believe and wish to be the rights of mankind and for tha (Continued on page 3) The detective*, under the di- rection of the prosecutor, wore trying to set vvluenre of graft- ing by pollen en. "Ves," I.iinilin admitted to The Stir, "the money was ad- vaneed by Dr. Matthews. The man life. And the 4,000 men and women of the audience made the theatre rock with an applause such as musicsl com- edy never In thl* world receiv- ed, and never will. Rut, 1 llko the Odyssey for Its i ndlnn hn wpll ;tk lor llic ilriunatir i liapters of tlie wanderings and ad \ onture. detectives needed expense money, and I could not get It from the county at that time. ro Dr Matthews borrowed $500 from a I ank nnd turned it over to them." 0. K. WAR BONDS WASHINGTON, April it>.?With little discussion and no opposition the senate finance committee to- day reported favorably tho $7,000,- UOO.OOd bond bill. The hill will be rushed thru the senate tomorrow to make available the flood of gold, Senator Simmons nit id. RESERVE BANK HERE WASHINGTON*. April IB?The federal reserve board is Informally considering establishment of banks at Portland, Ore.. Spokane, and Se- attle as branches of the federal re- serve bank of San Francisco, it was learned today. [stress, to his lofty house, his I'enelope and his own people. Similarly, I hope, will be the end- ing of Sir Kraest s epic. He and his comrades (those who have not already Joined the colors) are hur- ry inn (o their posts to fight for Kngland and "us." as the lecturer said in conclusion. May they survive,the new dan- gers, as they have the old. an<J come again to their high roofetl homes. For Odysseus finally arrives buck, after all the flghtiug an J the